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The Patience of the Spider
By (Author) Andrea Camilleri
Translated by Stephen Sartarelli
Pan Macmillan
Picador
20th June 2008
Unabridged edition
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
853.914
Short-listed for CWA International Dagger 2008 (UK)
Paperback
288
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 18mm
199g
As Montalbano recovers from the injuries he sustained in his last case, aided and abetted by his girlfriend Livia's ministrations, a local girl goes missing and the whole community takes an interest in the case. But why are the kidnappers so sure that the girl's impoverished father and dying mother will be able to find a fortune Montalbano is called in to help, and in his own inimitable style eventually ferrets out the truth about a kidnapping that is anything but straightforward.
Wonderful Italian detective stories. * Guardian *
A magnificent series of novels. * Sunday Times *
Andrea Camilleri is one of Italy's most famous contemporary writers. His Montalbano series has been adapted for Italian television and translated into nine languages. He lives in Rome.